Friday, May 13, 2011

We never thought we would be writing about an Amver cruise ship defending itself against a ruthless pirate attack with deck chairs but that very scenario unfolded aboard the MSC Melody back in 2009. The details of the attack came to light after one of the elderly cruise passengers settled a lawsuit with the cruise company.

John and Barbara Jeffrey were with a group socialising on deck late at night when they first spotted a small boat following their liner, then looked on in horror as a pirate attached a rope to a lower deck and began shinning up it. The holidaymakers threw everything they could at the man and he finally fell into the sea when a German hit him with a flying deckchair.

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